Pocket-book.



N0. 739,754. PATENTBD SEPT. 22,- 1903.

M, LOVBOE.

POCKET BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JUHE S, R03.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

POCKETrBOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,754, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed June a, 1903. s ia1m.160,239. on) model.)

To Ml rah/01w it may concern:

- Be it known that I, MICHELE Lovson, a citi-' zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books, of which the view of the pocket-book folded. Fig. 2 is an interior view of the pocket-book, the cover only being thrown back. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 with the opposite cover only opened. Fig. t is a top plan view of the pocket-book with three sectionsof the same shown fiat. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the pocket-book. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the pocket-book with the parts extended, the portions 2, 6, and 10 being turned back, other parts being broken away. Fig. 7 is a view reverse of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a view of the pocket-book, showing two of the sections. Fig. 9 is a similar View to Fig. 8, showing another of the sections. Fig. 10 is a similar view showing three of the sections. Fig. 11 is a similar view showing two different sections; and Fig. 12 is a sectional view of the pocket-book on the line a a, Fig. 1, showing the arrangement of the-tapes.

The pocket-book is constructed upon a basepiece 12, which is of the width and length with the parts or folds which it is desired to give to the completed article, and this basepiece maybe of any suitable fabric.

1 and 10 are the outside covers of the pocketbook, which are secured in any suitable manner-for instance, as by glue-to the basepiece 12, as more clearly shown in Fig. 5.

2 and 9 indicate a suitable lining for the outside covers, pasted or otherwise secured to the base-piece 12.

8 is a pocket which is secured by glue or otherwise to the base-piece 12, said pocket being provided with a flap 8. This pocket, as will be seen, extends nearly the entire width of the base-piece, as will be seen more clearly in Fig. 8.

7 is a pocket similar to the pocket 8, se-

cured on the opposite sides of the base-piece 12, immediately back of the pocket 8, said ooket 7 havin a fla 7 as seen in Fi 3.

e P a The facing 6, of any suitable material, is secured to the fold opposite the pocket 7.

5 is a facing similar. to the facing 6, but secured on the side of the base fabric 12 opposite to the facing 6, as shown in Fig. 9.

4 and at are two pockets secured to the base fabric opposite the facing 5, said pockets having flaps i" and 4 as shown in Fig. 9.

3 and 3 are two pockets secured to the base fabric on the side immediately back of the pockets 4. and 4 and are provided with flaps 3 and 3, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2.

2 is a facing secured to the base fabric inside of the cover 1.

13 represents tapes, one end of which is socured to the inside 'of the cover 1, said tapes being secured between the facings carrying the two pockets 3 and 4, the intermediate portion of each tape being free and unatta'ched, whereby the cover 1 may be opened to disclose the pockets 3 and 3*; but should the coveril be grasped at the upper edge, as

at 1, the pockets 4 and 4 will'be disclosed,

the tape drawing the edge I of the cover 1 tightly against the lower end of the flap carrying the pockets 3 and 3. a

14. represents tapes, one end of which is socured to the outer edge 15 of the cover 10,

" while the other ends of the tapes aresecured between the pockets 7 and 8, so that the manipulation of the cover is the same as that described in connection with the manipulation of the cover 1. The effect of this is that if one should open the pocket-book, say, from the edge 1" of the cover 1 the pockets 3 and 3 would first be disclosed, and upon further manipulation from this edge the pocket 7 would be disclosed; but reversing the pocket book and opening from the edge 15 of the cover 10 the pocket 8 is first disclosed, and upon further opening the pocket-book, which would be the swinging of the sections 5 6 7 8, the pockets 4. and 4%. would be disclosed. Thus it will be seen that should the position of the pocket-book be changed in any way in the hand of the person using it he would instantly become puzzled as to the position of the several compartments in which any article had been placed, as it is impossible,

2 i i i we? to open the pocket-book when held in one the desired length, of pockets secured upon position so as to disclose all of the compartthe folds of the base-piece, and tapes conments. 7 necting the ends of the outside covers with As will be seen from the description above the top and bottom of the middle folds re- I 5 5 given, it is necessary in order to examine all of spectively.

the compartments of the book to reverse the In testimony whereof I afli'x my signature book in the hand. in presence of, two witnesses.

Having thus described my invention, the MICHELE LOVEOE.

Witnesses:

W. RAY FETZER, ALMA G. JOHNSON.

following is What is claimed as new therein: to In a pocket-book, the combination with a single-folded base-piece extending through 

